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Without warning, she felt the tremble of a sob wrench her body to the floor, hot tears pouring down her cheeks.
I stumbled on this article from CNN which details the sob story of a 15 year old boy found guilty of murder.
She was quick to sympathize and usually only a sob story could sway her vote unless the teller seemed too pathetic to her.
I'm not pleading for sympathy or giving you a sob story, that's not my style, but it is really, really getting to me.
Best of all last night was that although Alicia gave a bit of a sob story about her upbringing she didn't focus on it as much as last week.
He hands over his expense money in an airport when he falls for a sob story from a woman.
You ask mid-sentence in your sob story about being used for nothing more than knowing your way around a computer.
As careful reporters and producers demonstrated over and over again, a story that makes you cry need not be a sob story, and should not be.
Another one I don't want to hear is the sob story about people working at the big financial firms who didn't get raises.
She made the cut not because she was a great singer but because she had a sob story.
Make the rounds of talk shows, say how dreadfully sorry you are, maybe even sob a little.
What lay before her struck her like a dagger, causing her to pale with fear, even begin to sob silently.
The intensity of being in first year is often enough to make any freshman curl up in the fetal position and sob uncontrollably.
Good singers without a sob story might have a struggle to get to first base.
She rolled onto her side and retched up all the water she had swallowed, a strangled sob following.
A sob ripped through the young lord as he collapsed against her, burying his face in her lap, his arms wrapped around her slender waist.
Now I don't care any more what other people think and now I sob out loud as well.
Tears started spilling from her eyes and a choked sob tore from her throat.
With a sob of joy she embraced Christin, holding him tightly, cheek to cheek.
Each sob brought a load of pain with it, adding physical pain to the mental and emotional torment he was already suffering from.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Never a roar of the drone or a sob of the chanter but's in the Gaelic tongue.
She stopped breathlessly, with a break in her voice that sounded just short of a sob.
The dalesman's broad breast heaved indignantly, and there was a sob in his voice as he replied.
Here she began to sob, as she fumbled at the door she could not see to open.
He never stopped to snoot and paw up the ground and sob himself into bronchitis over old Rienzi.
One sob sister had declared Callista was a woman, with human needs, feelings, a tragic childhood.
She choked upon an importunate sob and dug nails into the palms of her hands.
The body of the article Hazel read in what a sob sister would describe as a state of mingled emotions.
Rouletabille listened to the voice dying away with the last sob of the balalaika.
As I said I didn't start out to tell a sob story, but in this business we see quite a few cases like that.
The sob of the saxophone came through the window near by, the froufrou of the dancers made a soft susurration faintly audible.
Instead of going up to him, she sat down on the corded trunk and began to sob.
While Fraulein waited, trembling, several of the girls began to snuffle and sob.
There was a sob in his throat as Jeff pushed the blade back into the worn scabbard and rehung the sword upon the wall.
There is that Italianate sob in the voice as they demand Poulet roti au salade!
There is something like a sob to the perfecting press, as though saddened by the very thought of the abuses it must reform.
The boy began to sob, and drew his coat-sleeve across his eye with a snuffle.
He heard a low sob, and it cut through him like a gapped and rusty blade.
The last sob of little Sebastijonas has been stifled, and the orchestra has once more been reminded of its duty.
My mother says that whenever she read The Steadfast Tin Soldier I would sob and then beg to hear it again.
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